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“I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others - mostly me - have no idea.”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“Sometimes it's the little things that bring that special someone back to us in some small way.”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“Sometimes it's hard for me to start something because I'd rather not try at all than fail at it”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“Feelings can be the most costly thing in the universe.”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
― Kasie West, On the Fence

“Well, if you're a mess then I'm a natural disaster."

"The cutest natural disaster I've ever seen.”
― Kasie West, The Fill-In Boyfriend

“There’s no such thing as too much Disney.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“I know I shouldn’t introduce my own memoir with this amount of insecurity, but my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you’re never disappointed. BAM! Highlight that previous sentence, baby!”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's letting me in on the secret.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I can't hold on to you. You're like a shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“You have to try. You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail - especially if you fail - come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation... 'Once, I dared to dare greatly”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never pick a fight with an ugly person. They've got nothing to lose.”
― Robin Williams